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Peter the Hermit leading the People’s Crusade — 14th-century manuscript (British Library)
Peter the Hermit leading the People’s Crusade — 14th-century manuscript (British Library)

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Person1050 – 1115

Peter the Hermit

Also called: Peter of Amiens

Preacher from Amiens who in 1096 led the People’s Crusade of the poor toward the Holy Land ahead of the knights

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    1096People’s Crusadekey figure

    Ahead of the knights’ armies, tens of thousands of poor people stirred by Peter the Hermit set out for the Holy Land, only to be destroyed by the Seljuks in Asia Minor in October 1096.

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  • Alexios I Komnenos1057 – 1118

    Byzantine emperor (r. 1081–1118) whose appeal to the pope for Western soldiers against the Seljuks unexpectedly set off the Crusades

Themes this person appears in

  • The Crusades1095 – 1291

    From the Council of Clermont to the fall of Acre — two centuries of war between Latin Europe and the Islamic world over the Holy Land